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BY PHILIP FINE

A TINY wire antenna and a computer chip the size of a piece of glitter will be imbedded into most retail product materials in the next few years, if all goes as

planned by those currently involved in developing a revolutionary tracking system.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
TECHNOLOGY may have produced many different ways of checking underground networks of pipes and sewers by remote control, but one problem remains the same: secure access. Even the smallest aperture can invite vandalism or, at its worst, deliberate contamination if it can be forced or broken easily.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF there is one undeniable fact about global warming, then it is that the last significant heating of the Earth’s surface had nothing to do with traffic jams, aerosols and power stations, because…well…they did not exist.

Think back to the time of woolly mammoths, sabre toothed tigers and Neanderthals, and consider why their snowy frigid homelands in northern Europe became the green, pleasant and temperate lands that we know and love.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Nottingham
INTRODUCTION

REPETITIVE Strain Injury (RSI) is still by and large an unacknowledged problem for many employers. The complaint is formally defined as “work-related upper limb disorders” and its most common symptoms are pain, fatigue and weakness, most often associated these days with sitting a long time in front of a computer screen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) funded report has called on the European Commission to push the idea of a compulsory patent litigation insurance scheme for companies seeking legal protection for their inventions.

The paper, written for the Commission by Britain’s CJA Consultants Ltd, following interviews with innovative companies and insurers, says: “Provision of readily available and cost-effective patent litigation insurance is highly likely to improve the value of patents to users.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend around Euro 130 million to Austrian speciality steel company Böhler-Uddeholm AG. The money would help fund an investment programme aimed at expanding and modernising production lines for special high grade steels at its Austrian and Swedish plants.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN businesses seem to be shying away from the country’s newly available terrorism insurance policies, saying they cost too much money.

Under a mandatory federal programme, insurers have been required to provide separate insurance to commercial policyholders for events defined as terrorism and causing at least US$5 million in losses; President Bush signed the law last November and the insurance carriers had until February 24 to inform policyholders how much they would have to pay for the coverage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is putting itself in a position to reap the economic rewards of developing renewable energy technologies ahead of the United States, an American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting has been told. “Europe has made a major commitment to renewable energy and is leading the United States in deploying it,” said Allan Hoffman, a renewables specialist and senior advisor to Winrock International’s Clean Energy Group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers have appointed the European Commission as the long term guardian of the goals and assets of the new defunct European Coal and Steel Community. It has been given control of any resources remaining after the winding up of the institution and has been ordered to manage these assets “as to ensure a long-term return….aimed…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAVING assessed the assets and liabilities of the newly defunct European Coal and Steel Community, the European Commission has earmarked a further Euro 158.3 million for research into coal and steel. The decision has come after Brussels adopted the financial report detailing the winding up of the 50-year-old institution last year.…